WINTHROP — The Bailey Public Library will host journalist, writer and environmentalist Kathryn Miles at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24. The presentation will take place in the King Event Room. It is free and open to the public.

Miles grew up in the Midwest, where she worked as a journalist for the Journal Star in Illinois. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Saint Louis University in 1996 and received her doctorate in English from the University of Delaware in 2001.

She is the author of “All Standing,” which details the true tale of a celebrated “coffin ship” that ran between Ireland and America in the 1840s, and “Adventures with Ari,” a memoir recounting four seasons as a canine naturalist.

Her newest book “Superstorm” is the first complete moment-by-moment account of Hurricane Sandy, the second-costliest hurricane in U.S. history that affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard.

Miles has also written about subjects that include Puerto Rican street food, eel poachers, homing pigeons and lifesavers. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including Best American Essays, Popular Mechanics and The New York Times.

She previously served as professor of environmental writing at Unity College and is part of the faculty for Chatham University’s Master of Fine Arts low-residency program.

She was founding editor-in-chief of Hawk & Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability, and is a scholar-in-residence for the Maine Humanities Council.

She lives with her family in Portland.